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We had brillant weather at the start of the day, sunny intervals. However it did rain for most of the afternoon which switched the fish off. A great time was had by all. The five rods did not catch a trout of over one pound. Nevertheless were kept busy with fish of 5-8 inches. The wining combination was a weighted black GRHE sz14 on the point with a small spider pattern on a dropper 3 foot higher.
There was a problem with a group camping alongside the Ciliau run on the east bank. They were fishing when we arrived and has a large Canadian style canoe which they paddled up and down the beat. This was reported to W&UF.
We camped at Trericket Mill near the beat.
http://www.trericket.co.uk

36 Trout

4 Trout, 6 Grayling

An excellent days fishing in spite of the conditions! Very hot and little cloud cover. The fish were concentrated in the shallow oxygenated water and fell throughout the day to small bugs fished in the French nymph style. TP ended with 11 trout and approximately 20 parr whilst RG stole the show by consistantly finding grayling and ending with 5 trout, 25 grayling and approximately 30 parr.

16 Trout, 25 Grayling

Three juvenile trout (returned), all on wet fly. Weather conditions were challenging; some surface activity on dawn rise, plus significant activity on evening rise at lower beat boards.

3 Trout

One juvenile fish. Returned. Early morning and late evening fishing. Very enjoyable but challenging, given the hot and very bright weather conditions.

1 Trout

Clear and hot summer's day, some movement on surface of water but nothing caught. Beautiful stretch of river.

Only small fingerlings landed and returned.

Cloudy but quite warm with a fresh breeze coming down river. Water height for trouting really good as this beat can be quite intimidating when the water is above a foot and a half on the Llanstephan gauge.
A moderate amount of flies picking off throughout the day - LDO's, BWO's, the odd sedge and yellow may. 11 trout caught and released all off the top on a variety of dries. Nothing spectacular in size (6" - 9") but feisty nonetheless. Really good hatch of olives for about 15 minutes around 6pm which resulted in a 14" grayling, best fish of the day.
After blanking on the Usk the day before a much needed boost to the fishing confidence and a lesson learnt in choosing the appropriate beat according to water levels.

11 Trout, 1 Grayling

Really good day, superb stretch of water for a couple of beginners. Plenty of fish about but only managed to connect with one each, both returned.

2 Trout

This was a club visit from Pheasant Fly Fishers, Chippenham, Wiltshire, a small active club of about 15 members who fish for trout and grayling on their monthly trips. Normally visit stillwaters and reservoirs and last year included Cantref, this year Wentwood. This was first club excursion to either Rivers Wye or Usk although some members have fished these before. ( I actually had fished the Ty-Newydd beat some years previously but did not recall until I got there.) A mixed experience of wild river fishers, so help was available, resulting in all rods catching fish. Richard Shaw was top rod with 3 brown trout, 2 at about 1 1/4, 1 1/2 lbs and 3 grayling largest about 1 3/4 lbs. Caught in the gutter runs with gold bead head nymph and klinkhamer - both successfull flies.
An assortment of flies and methods worked, as you would expect, each using what gave confidence.
Some fish caught on dry flies, cream spider pattern on drop dropper to imitate lemony yellow upwings hatching. Some mayflies also hatching. One chap had 3 small browns on a single pheasant tail nymph fished downstream. Another had success with a butcher after he had been advised to try a heavy point fly and traditional wets on droppers about 2 ft apart - fished downstream and across, left to swing around. We all fished debarbed hooks and all fish were returned.
Foundations service was excellent and patient when I could not receive attachment for directions and beat map. We all enjoyed the fishing, a great experience and the view at lunch from hut was stunning. We will put Wye&Usk rivers in our calender again next year. Thank you. Next week - a beginners boat day at Hawkridge Resv.near Bridgewater.

11 Trout, 6 Grayling